A/N: Okay, this is chapter two. Now, I have to apologize for the horrible timing of when Rachel left and when Lyric was born. I'm horrible at math, and it was about…3:30 in the morning when I did that. So, I'll do the math and post it in the next chapter. Okay, so here's the next chapter. Hope you enjoy. : D

Rachel didn't want to leave Lima. She really didn't, but how else would she get away from the newly renewed Puck and Quinn family with they're daughter Kaitlyn. She stayed in Lima until graduation. Before she found out she was pregnant, she was going to go to New York City. Become a star. But when she found out she was pregnant she knew that she had to give up those dreams, at least for now to raise her daughter. When she found New Tulsa, which she didn't even know there was a New Tulsa, she thought there was just a Tulsa. But anyway, when she found New Tulsa she knew it was perfect. Warm summers, snowy winters and beautiful springs. Rachel had lost herself in her own thoughts as the party wore down and Matt and Mercedes started cleaning up her living room. She got up to start to object. This was her house, they were her guests, they shouldn't have to do this.

"Rachel sit down." Kurt said. Rachel looked at him and shook her head. Her hair was shorter now, not terribly short, but to her shoulders. Rachel crossed her arms over her chest.

"You guys are my guests. I should be cleaning up." She said. Finn, who was sitting on the couch with Lyric sitting on his lap, falling asleep, spoke up.

"Rachel, all you do on a normal day is clean, and look after Lyric and work. Sit down, and enjoy the maid service known as Matt and Mercedes." Finn said. Rachel looked at all of them who were yelling at her with their eyes, not wanting to wake Lyric up from her comfortable slumber that she was now in on Finn's lap. Rachel let out a long drawn out sigh then sat down. Rachel looked at her friends that were scattered throughout her living room, and her eyes landed on Lyric. She got up with a smile and went over to Finn and picked her daughter up.

"I'm going to put her down for a nap." She mouthed to Finn, who nodded. She carried the little girl up the stairs and into her room. Rachel pulled Lyric's pink comforter back and put her on the bed. She took off Lyric's shoes and put them on the side of her bed and pulled the blanket over her daughter and put her favorite stuffed bear next to her. Rachel sat on the bed and ran a hand though her daughter's hair. Lyric reminded Rachel so much of Noah, it was sickening. Rachel sat, staring at her daughter's sleeping form. She started having flashbacks to the day Noah broke her heart.

-Flashback-

Rachel sat with a pregnancy test trembling in her hands. She was pregnant. With child. She was having Noah's baby. She put the test down on the sink and washed her hands. After wiping them off on a near by throw towel. She took in a deep breath and smoothed out her skirt then walked out of her bathroom and sat on her couch. How was she ever going to tell Noah that he was going to be a father again? She let out a shaky sigh and put her head in her hands and took in deep breaths trying to calm herself down. A few minutes passed by, when her door bell rang. She got up and walked over to it and opened it. She came face to face with a distraught looking Noah Puckerman.

"Hey Noah." She said with a smile. Noah, who was looking at the ground, looked up at her.

"We need to talk." He said quietly. Rachel's brow furrowed.

"Okay." She said slowly, then moved aside for him to come in. "Come in, we can talk in here." She said. Noah shook his head.

"I don't think that's such a good idea." He said quietly. Rachel looked up at him and shook her head.

"Why?" She asked walking outside to stand with him, closing her door behind her.

"I can't—We can't I—"He said stumbling over his words. He shoved his hands in his pockets and let out a sigh. He blinked a few times and Rachel studied him closely.

"Noah?" She asked putting a hand on his shoulder. He jerked away from her. Rachel's eyes widened.

"Noah?" She asked again. Noah just shook his head.

"We can't do this anymore." He said quietly.

"Do what?" She asked honestly confused.

"This." He said motioning around them, which made Rachel even more confused.

"Noah, I don't get it." She said.

"Our relationship. We can't do it anymore." Noah said looking up to her eyes that were staring at him intensely. Rachel's hands fisted at her skirt.

"Why?" She asked brokenly.

"I have a daughter and she deserves to have a family with me and Quinn. I love her Rachel, I'm sorry." Noah lied. He did want Kaitlyn to have a family, but he didn't love Quinn. And Quinn made him choose between his daughter and Rachel. What was he going to do? He wasn't a dead beat, so he chose Kaitlyn and Quinn by default. Rachel clasped her hands in front of her and bounced on the balls of her feet back and forth. She looked up to meet Noah's green eyes bearing into her.

"Okay. She said quietly.

"Okay?"

"What am I going to say to you? You've made your decision obviously. I can't change your mind. It's done now. You can't take it back. I hope you're happy I really do. I hope you and Quinn have a nice life together." Rachel said some what bitterly.

"Rach…" He started. He was broken; she could her it in his voice.

"Noah please, I really don't need to hear why else we can't be together. I-I love you." She said quietly, tears starting to stream down her face.

"Rachel please." He said, begging her. Rachel went up to her door and opened it as the rain started to pour.

"I think you should go." Rachel said quietly. Noah nodded. He reached foreword and kissed her on the cheek.

"I'm sorry." He whispered in her ear. Rachel nodded her head. As he left to go back into his truck she started to cry.

"I'm pregnant." She whispered as he drove away.

-End Flashback-

Rachel snapped out of her daze as she heard someone knock on Lyric's door. She looked down to see that the three year old was still asleep. She quietly got up off of Lyric's bed and went and opened her door. She saw Kurt on the other side. He was looking at her with a smile.

"Come on Rach. Come back downstairs." Kurt whispered to her. Rachel nodded then shut off Lyric's light and walked back out with Kurt and down the stairs. Half way down the stairs, Rachel turned to Kurt.

"Are you going to that party Will's throwing?" She asked. Kurt's face scrunched up.

"Who?"

"Mr. Schuester." She said with a laugh.

"Oh. Yeah. Are you?" Kurt asked. Rachel nodded.

"Yeah, I already called him and told him he could count on me being there." She said walking to the last step.

"Are you nervous about Quinn and Puck?" Kurt asked. Rachel nodded.

"As long as Noah doesn't see Lyric. We're good." Rachel said. Kurt sighed.

"Rachel he's going to find out sometime." Kurt said. Rachel shook her head.

"Over my dead body." She said. The rest of the Glee Club heard they're conversation and Santana looked up.

"Rachel he's right. Maybe you should just tell him." Santana said trying to reason with her. Rachel shook her head.

"No, he's just going to try and take her from me. No."

"Rachel, I know Puck. We've been best friends since we were 3. He won't take her from you." Finn said. Rachel sighed.

"I know all of you see Noah or Quinn or both on a daily basis and how hard it has got to be keeping this secret from them on a day to day basis and I want to thank you for that, but there is no way I'm telling him." Rachel said with a shake of the head.

"Maybe it will help." Matt said. Rachel rolled her eyes as she picked up Lyric's toys.

"Help with what?" She asked.

"Getting you and Puck back together." Brittany said in a 'duh' tone voice. Rachel stood up, toys in her hands.

"Noah and I are never getting back together." She hissed.

"You have a daughter with the guy." Mike insisted.

"I know that, Mike. I was there when I gave birth to the kid!" She said then put the toys in the toy box that Rachel had in the living room.

"I bet he misses you, Rach." Finn spoke up.

"He misses me like he misses the asthma attacks he had when he was a kid." Rachel mumbled then walked into her kitchen. Finn sighed.

"She'll never know." Brittany said.

"Not unless she sees past all the bull and sees how much Puck loves her." Finn mumbled.

-Lima, Ohio-

Noah Puckerman sat on the bed he shared with his girlfriend/long time partner Quinn Fabray. But they weren't in love. Not anymore. They could barely stand each other. Puck searched through his draw on the nightstand on his side of the bed, until he found what he was looking for. It was a picture of him and Rachel at his graduation the year before she graduated, which was the year she left. He sighed as he ran his finger gingerly over the picture. He smiled at it as tears came to his eyes, but he didn't cry. He was badass. He knew that he couldn't hear her, but he talked to the picture anyway.

"I miss you."

A/N: Okay, so I've been thinking about this whole timing thing the whole time I was writing this. So I'm gonna put it out there now so someone who's good at math tell me if I'm right.

So, Rachel is a sophomore in 2009, that's last year. Weird right? Anyway, she gets pregnant senior year so that would be…2011. So if she gets pregnant in May which would be the last time she saw Puck. Okay so nine months from then would be….February(Hey I got that right!) Okay, so that would be February 2012. So then fast forward three years later and it would be…2015. So….It would be…roughly 3 years, 9 months. Right? I don't know. Someone check my math. Anyway. Hope you enjoyed! (: